Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain United States Government officers or employees
# Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain United States Government officers or employees

Criminal law :

Elements :

Actus reus

Mens rea

Causation

Concurrence :

Scope of criminal liability :

Accessory

Accomplice

Complicity

Corporate

Principal

Vicarious :

Severity of offense :

Felony

Infraction (also called violation)

Misdemeanor :

Inchoate offenses :

Attempt

Conspiracy

Incitement

Solicitation :

Offences against the person :

Sexual offenses :

Adultery

Bigamy

Child sexual abuse

Cybersex trafficking

Fornication

Homosexuality

Incest

Indecent exposure

Masturbation

Obscenity

Prostitution

Rape

Sex trafficking

Sexual assault

Sexual slavery

Voyeurism :

Crimes against property :

Arson

Arms trafficking

Blackmail

Bribery

Burglary

Embezzlement

Extortion

False pretenses

Forgery

Fraud

Gambling

Intellectual property violation

Larceny

Payola

Pickpocketing

Possessing stolen property

Robbery

Smuggling

Tax evasion

Theft

Trespass to land

Vandalism, Mischief :

Crimes against justice :

Compounding

Malfeasance in office

Miscarriage of justice

Misprision

Obstruction

Perjury

Perverting the course of justice :

Crimes against the public :

Apostasy

Begging

Censorship violation

Dueling

Genocide

Hostage-taking

Illegal consumption (such as prohibition of drugs, alcohol, and smoking)

Miscegenation

Piracy

Terrorism

Usurpation

War crimes :

Crimes against animals :

Cruelty to animals

Wildlife smuggling

Bestiality :

Crimes against the state :

Lèse-majesté

Treason

Espionage

Secession

Sedition

Subversion :

Defences to liability :

Automatism

Consent

Defence of property

Diminished responsibility

Duress

Entrapment

Ignorantia juris non excusat

Infancy

Insanity

Justification

Mistake (of law)

Necessity

Provocation

Self-defence :

Other common-law areas :

Contracts

Evidence

Property

Torts

Wills, trusts and estates :

Portals :

Law :

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Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain United States Government officers or employees is an offense under 18 U.S.C. § 111. Simple assault is a class A misdemeanor, but if physical contact occurs, the offense is a class D felony. If a deadly weapon is used or bodily injury is inflicted, it is a class C felony. Threatening the government officials of the United States, particularly law enforcement officers, can in some cases fall under this statute.

It has been argued that the fundamental aim of this law was not to protect individual governmental officers, but to guard against the victimization of "government and its functions." However, the courts have found that sparse legislative history makes it equally plausible that the statute was designed to protect individual officers. The offense has a base offense level of 10, and the official victim enhancement does not apply because "the base offense level incorporates the fact that the victim was a governmental officer performing official duties." Enhancements do apply, however, if the offense involved physical contact; or if a dangerous weapon (including a firearm) was possessed and its use was threatened; or if the victim sustained bodily injury. Harsher penalties, under a separate guideline, apply to aggravated assault (i.e. a felonious assault that involved (A) a dangerous weapon with intent to cause bodily injury (i.e., not merely to frighten) with that weapon; (B) serious bodily injury; or (C) an intent to commit another felony.) A threat of force will satisfy the statute.

